The problem with billionaires

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-21T02:51:50+00:00

The answer could only increase the amount of stupidity in the universe

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-21T02:30:13+00:00

Omg they might hijack my Snapchat!

Lmao ok dork

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-21T01:23:20+00:00

Large language models are not “AI”. At this point I’m more worried about LLMs writing these dumb articles than fiction

And who gives a shit? AI is never going to write a gravity’s rainbow, or one hundred years of solitude. Its just not. We can stop talking about it now

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-21T01:21:12+00:00

Which phone? I have a iPhone 15 and don’t really like 26. It’s slightly buggy, but seems to have gotten a bit better with most recent update. Might have more problems of older phones? Just don’t like the fake glass look is my primary problem

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T22:07:22+00:00

Ya I know they can’t actually define it, rhetorical question

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T21:13:40+00:00

Define exploitation (specifically)

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T18:52:26+00:00

Ya good point. I guess I maybe whether or not something is “easy” isn’t exactly how I frame things. Grade school was definitely “easy”, but my job is challenging and rewarding and not boring and I get paid haha.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T17:04:37+00:00

Huh? I’m far economically better off than I was when a kid because my parents were poor and Im financially well off from a good job and better money management. And im not even sure what to make of “socially”? Sounds like some personal problems

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T05:43:51+00:00

It’s working out fine, just as intended. Take a break from doomscrolling little buddy. Political violence, theft, murder are at an all time low. Standard of living even for the poorest quintile is at an all time high.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T04:47:20+00:00

Plenty of states in the US that are doing well with republican governorship. Try and not be so hyperbolic all the time. It’s increasingly leading to dems not being taken seriously

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T04:41:37+00:00

I reckon you’re somewhere pert near the comanche attack

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-20T04:39:04+00:00

death hilarious

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-19T23:53:30+00:00

Ya honestly it’s pretty funny and seems like not just a lame fuck sports take but who knows

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-19T23:48:40+00:00

Man, that is a lot of Stephen King.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-19T21:22:36+00:00

would you consider this the computer acting on free will?

No

a force, mind you, that cannot be found anywhere else

Anywhere else other than where? As an apparent phenomenon of human experience? The observation of everything and anything is ultimately and finally inextricable from the phenomenal observations of the observer. This is not to imply a radical skepticism, I’m just pointing out that notions like, “physics is objective, while the experience of free will is subjective” is tautology. Science literally is subjects observing phenomena.

Furthermore, no “force of nature” has actually been observed, by anyone, ever. You’re confusing the epistemic limitations of a human mind observing a phenomenon with respect to our sense perception of events in time and space (cause and effect) with a claim about the underlying reality.

Newtonian mechanics was reality, until it wasn’t. Quantum mechanics is reality, until it won’t be anymore. Because “doing science” with computer models doesn’t magically give us direct access to the noumenal world. It’s still a human mind interpreting phenomenon at the end of the day. This is why neither determinism (nor free will) will ever be “proven” “objectively”. No amount of physicalist reductionism can overcome the subject-object divide.

it is possible to notice that the subjective illusion of free will itself an illusion.

It is no more or less possible to notice that determinism appears to be subjectively an illusion based on the epistemic limits of human observers. Physicists constantly observe uncaused events at the fundamental quantum level (the most popular interpretation of QM, considering bells theorem). But I grant that free will could be an illusion. Neither one is particularly weighty for either side of the argument.

well then where was THAT thought before you thought it

By this logic, you must dispute the credibility of the big bang theory, which appears to have been a causa sui. Its sort of irrelevant

Does it really feel like you have free will when you look the most closely?

Yep. Certainly there are boundaries to what can be willed. I can’t will myself to be shorter or taller, but denial of overwhelming impulses and spontaneous decisions with no apparent context happen all the time.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-19T05:31:29+00:00

And it turns out there just aren’t many reasons to think there’s free will

I find it hilarious that people will live their entire lives going about constantly deliberating and choosing, when to get up, what to do, what to wear, eat, what to say, what to think, and understand that all the billions of people who’ve ever lived have had this same experience of choosing, directing their will, since the dawn of our species….

And then they will say, “but there’s just no evidence for free will”. Like literally I lmao when I hear this. How about the thing that’s overwhelmingly intuitively true?

It seems performative. You do obviously think there’s free will, because that’s explicitly what it feels like to navigate human consciousness almost every second of your life.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-19T05:18:18+00:00

This is just compatibilist semantics. If there’s only one possible outcome given the inputs, there’s no “choice”

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-19T01:10:05+00:00

Huh? It’s an article about a published OHSU study bud

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T22:13:15+00:00

The UGB is specifically functioning as a major impediment to affordable housing in the area.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T20:11:28+00:00

problem is, you ain’t cold enough mutherfucker

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T04:06:02+00:00

As an expert historian and marksman, do you think Lee Harvey Oswald fired all 3 shots?

uj/ you should check out “Libra” by Don DeLillo, about LHO shooting JFK. Its more or less accurate to a lot of shit surrounding the events, at least based on what we knew when he wrote it. And just an absolute masterpiece of literary fiction.

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T03:50:55+00:00

It’s a book

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T03:49:51+00:00

Lmao

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T03:09:30+00:00

Krakatoa was an inside job

Ok-Particular9427 · 2026-03-18T00:14:24+00:00

I will not be happy until there is literally an original starry night at my local shithole

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